Comprises the personal and literary papers, correspondence, photographs, personal possessions, and books of Ivan Bunin; also, translations of his works and critical literature in Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Oriya, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Yiddish
Ivan Bunin papers
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- ReferenceGB 206 MS 1066
- Dates of Creation1887-1998
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- Language of MaterialEnglish Russian French German
- Physical Description10,763 items, manuscript, typescript, photocopies, diaries, notebooks, photographs, audio recordings, and printed Includes framed paintings and photographs, photographic glass plates, rings, badges, cuff links, watches, cigarette case, purses, bank-notes and coins, gold medal, scissors, shoehorn, thermometer, typewriter and suitcases
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Ivan Alekseevich Bunin (1870-1953) was a Russian writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933, and a member of the post-revolutionary Russian migr community in France
Access Information
Access is unrestricted
Acquisition Information
The gift of Militsa Greene, 1983-1991
Note
In Russian, English, French, German
Other Finding Aids
A more detailed listing of the contents is available in the published catalogue: Anthony J Heywood, Catalogue of the I. A. Bunin, V. N. Bunina, L. F. Zurov and E. M. Lopatina Collections, edited by Richard D. Davies, with the assistance of Daniel Riniker (Leeds: Leeds University Press, 2000)